Larry Sanders

Larry Sanders, Cleveland Cavaliers Agree To Contract

... led Sanders to walk away from the NBA and accept a buyout  from the Bucks in February 2015. He later revealed in The Players' Tribune that he was dealing with anxiety and depression and stepped away from the game to focus on his mental health. But two years later, he announced he would be returning to basketball. Larry Sanders @l 8 show_thegoat. Officially stepping back into the game,looking for a good fit but it shouldn't be long now, I really missed the game, I think it missed me 2 🛐. 1/27/2017, 1:12:42 AM. Sanders offers the Cavaliers an intriguing player to add to their frontcourt rotation. While he's not much of an offensive threat, he's a strong rebounder who makes a major impact on the defensive end with his shot-blocking prowess. While he will absolutely face an adjustment period after skipping the entire 2015-16 season and appearing in just 50 total games in his last two seasons in the league, he should provide Cleveland with a nice rotational option off the bench. It's hard to know if he'll ever return to the form he displayed in the 2012-13 campaign, but he's a relatively inexpensive gamble for the Cavaliers after Andrew Bogut ...

Larry Sanders Will Mostly Play With Cavaliers’ Minor-league Team

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Larry Sanders Among Cavs' Replacement Options

... in the league when healthy, and he seemed like the perfect guy to give Cleveland a different look. He made his debut on Monday and, in absolutely awful news for him and the Cavs,  he broke his leg less than a minute into his first stint. Cleveland’s front office could decide to leave the roster as-is. Mozgov, after all, wasn’t a part of the rotation during last year’s playoffs. If the Cavs do decide to explore other options, though, here is a (purely speculative) list of possible options. Larry Sanders. This is my favorite choice, and he met with the Cavaliers just a couple of weeks ago. If he can play like he did before he left in the NBA in the middle of the 2014-15 season, then he’s their best option and it’s not close. Sanders was one of the best shot-blockers in the league, and he had the quickness to defend smaller players on the perimeter, too. It’s unclear whether or not Cleveland will be interested in him and trust that  he is indeed committed to resuming his career , but there’s nobody out there who has a higher ...

Cleveland Cavaliers Reach Deal With Larry Sanders

... Charania of The Vertical has more on the move. Larry Sanders has reached agreement on a contract with the defending champion Cleveland Cavaliers, completing his return to the NBA, league sources told The Vertical. Sanders and his agent, Joel Bell, traveled to Cleveland on Sunday, and Sanders will undergo a physical exam on Monday morning before signing the deal, league sources said. Sanders’ deal will cover the remainder of this season and likely include a guarantee trigger date for 2017-18, league sources said. The Cavaliers must still decide whom to waive to create space for Sanders, league sources said. Sanders, 28, has been out of the league since February 2015, when he accepted a contract buyout with the Milwaukee Bucks. He had multiple violations of the NBA’s anti-drug policy, went on a personal leave of absence, and then stepped away from basketball to focus on his personal life. Over the past year, however, Sanders  began to focus on returning to the NBA. Sanders  ramped up his comeback effort in late January  when he hired Bell and scheduled team visits. He had a seven-team workout in Miami in February and had meetings with the Boston Celtics, Los Angeles ...

Larry Sanders Readies Himself For Another Chance At Nba Life

... during the past 24 months, to return to the physical and mental rigors of the NBA. "The action’s going to be everything. If a team’s willing to take that risk on me, I’m also taking that risk on them, that they’re going to be able to support me and be in my corner. We’re going to be able to understand each other.". Former NBA player Larry Sanders. He knows the questions are all there, first and foremost being: how can any team trust you’ll be able to deal with “the life” again. “I would say I worked really hard to get to where I was,” Sanders said. “I worked extremely hard. I started playing basketball when I was 17 years old. Things kind of hit me fast. It was hard to manage. I would say I’m more mature. I’m better. I’m at a higher level. I’m a better basketball player. I’ve taken that time to establish those things and get my family in order - not to say everything’s perfect. I took the time that I needed. “To convince someone by words, I don’t know what more ...

Fort Pierce Native Larry Sanders Aiming For Nba Comeback

... Tribune , he left to seek treatment for anxiety and depression. But he never closed the door to a possible return. “I love basketball, and if I get to a point where I feel I’m capable of playing basketball again, I will,” he said. “I’ve had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.”. There have been  talks of a comeback before, and Sanders had  publicized his plans on Twitter last month. The 6’11” big man announced he was “officially stepping back into the game” and had “really missed” it. He  worked out for the Boston Celtics in late January and seems to have impressed an important person in Cleveland. “What I saw today I liked,” Lue said. “I like him as a person, like what I saw.”. A fully-committed Sanders can be a dominant player. He averaged the second-most blocks in 2012-13 (2.8) and flirted with a nightly double-double (9.8 points and 9.5 rebounds per game). But he’ll need to prove he’s actually committed now. His NBA exit was anything but smooth, and he was suspended multiple times for violating the league’s anti-drug ...